Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas
Several Transformative Policy Measures/Initiatives taken To Enhance Exploration & Production Of Oil And Gas In The Country
The total consumption of petroleum products for the last three years is as under:
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Financial Year
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2016-17
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2017-18
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2018-19
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Consumption of Petroleum Products

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194597
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206166
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213216
Government has taken several transformative policy measures/initiatives to enhance exploration & production of oil and gas in the country, which include:
- Policy for Relaxations, Extensions and Clarifications under Production Sharing Contract  regime for early monetization of hydrocarbon discoveries, 2014
- Discovered Small Field Policy, 2015
- Hydrocarbon Exploration and Licensing Policy, 2016
- Policy for Extension of Production Sharing Contracts, 2016 and 2017
- Policy for early monetization of Coal Bed Methane, 2017
- Setting up of National Data Repository, 2017
- Appraisal of Unapprised areas in Sedimentary Basins.
- Re-assessment of Hydrocarbon Resources.
- Policy framework to streamline the working of Production Sharing Contracts in Pre-NELP and NELP Blocks, 2018
- Policy to Promote and Incentivize Enhanced Recovery Methods for Oil and Gas, 2018
- Policy framework for exploration and exploitation of Unconventional Hydrocarbons under existing Production Sharing Contracts, Coal Bed Methane contracts and Nomination fields, 2018.
- Grant of Marketing including pricing freedom, on natural gas production from High Pressure- High Temperature  reservoirs and deepwater and ultra deepwater areas , gas produced from CBM blocks, blocks awarded under Hydrocarbon Exploration and Licensing Policy  and Discovered Small Fields  Policy, commercial gas produced from North-Eastern Region  on or after 1st July, 2018 and also in those new gas discoveries whose Field Development Plan  has been approved after February 2019. To incentivize additional gas production from Administered Price Mechanism  fields, reduction in royalty by 10% of the applicable royalty has also been granted on the additional production over and above business-as-usual scenario.
- In addition, Government in February, 2019 approved major reforms in exploration and licensing policy to enhance exploration activities, attract domestic and foreign investment in unexplored/unallocated areas of sedimentary basins and accelerate domestic production of oil and gas from existing fields. The policy reforms inter alia aim to boost exploration activities with greater weightage to work programme and bidding of exploration blocks under Category II and III sedimentary basins without any production or revenue sharing to Government. Further, reforms envisage simplified fiscal and contractual terms, early monetization of discoveries by extending fiscal incentives and incentivizing gas production including marketing and pricing freedom. The policy also provides more functional freedom to National Oil Companies for collaboration and private sector participation for production enhancement methods in nomination fields. Streamlining approval processes and promoting ease of doing business including electronic single window mechanism is also an important aspect of policy reforms.
Export of crude oil is not permitted as per extant policy. In so far as import of crude oil is concerned, 17% of crude oil requirement is met through indigenous production and the balance 83% requirement is met through imports. The details of import of crude oil and import/export of petroleum products are given below:
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Import/Export of crude oil and petroleum products
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2017-18
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2018-19
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2019-20  
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Quantity
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Value
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Quantity
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Value
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Quantity
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Value
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Million Tonne
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US$ Billion
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₹ Crore
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Million Tonne
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US$ Billion
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₹ Crore
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Million Tonne
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US$ Billion
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₹ Crore
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Import of crude oil
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220.4
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87.8
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566450
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226.5
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111.9
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783183
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188.4
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87.7
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617344
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Import of petroleum products
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35.5
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13.6
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88374
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33.3
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16.3
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113665
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35.8
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15.0
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106191
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Export of petroleum products
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66.8
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34.9
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225388
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61.1
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38.2
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267697
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54.7
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31.3
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221206
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Source: Petroleum Planning & Analysis Cell, : Provisional
The details and the price of crude oil imported during the last three years are as under:
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Years
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2016-17
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2017-18
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2018-19
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Oil Imports 
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213.93
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220.43
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226.50
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Aggregated Price of Crude Oil 
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47.56
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56.43
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69.88
This information was given by the Union Minister of Petroleum & Natural Gas Shri Dharmendra Pradhan in the Lok Sabha today in a written reply.